[hmvince]

ive been trying to get bluetooth to work on my "ASUS Notebook F5GL Series" with vista. I cant seem to get it working. there is no bluetooth icon in the taskbar, and i go to control panel, hardware and sound, down to bluetooth and click bluetooth settings but nothing happens, i also click add a wireless device but it doesnt find anything, my brother has a laptop running XP and his bluetooth is working fine. i have asked him but he has no idea about it. I was wondering if anyone knew what to do?

[etaf]

have a look in device manager
in vista

Start
Control Panel
Classic view
system
device manager - on lefthandside
network adapters
see if listed - mine is listed when switched on....only

[hmvince]

it is not listed under any of the topics in the device manager but in the classic view control panel it has its own icon there. it cant be turned on and i do not know how to do that, any ideas?

[hmvince]

an nobody help me out?

[DoubleHelix]

There's either a physical switch or a FN key combination to enable the Bluetooth adapter. Also check the BIOS to make sure it's enabled.

[hmvince]

there is a wireless LAN switch on the side of my computer but that is always turned on and there is anso a FN key combination to turn that off and on, otherwise there is no physical switch or FN key combination to enable the bluetooth.
so i went to the BIOS and i found this,
bthmodem bluetooth serial communications driver
it says that it is not started, and disabled on start mode. how do i enable this?

thanks for your help by the way

[hmvince]

sorry about my previous post, i didnt actually go to the bios, that was in the system information.
anyway, so i restarted my computer and pressed f2, which took me to the "real" BIOS. the problem is i couldnt find any place in it to enable and disable things, letalone the bluetooth option.
i would really appreciate it if you could help me out.

[etaf]

perhaps download the driver from here and re-install

http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us

I have also downloaded the PDF manual from the site
on Page 47
start
all programs
bluetooth

[DoubleHelix]

Are you sure the laptop came with a Bluetooth adapter?

[hmvince]

im sure it did come with a built in bluetooth adapter because on the front of the laptop there is a little light with the bluetooth symbol next to it but the light isnt on, and bluetooth is also in control panel.

[hmvince]

OK, so i went to the asus site and found that the F5GL model wasnt there!, after a bit of searching i found that you could download the bluetooth driver for a different model and it should still work on the F5GL model.

[etaf]

that link should work

on first dropdown
Notebook

2nd dropdown
F5

3rd Dropdown
F5GI

thats where I got the manual from and saw the bluetooth driver

i suppose it could be an i I took it as a lowercase l

[hmvince]

okay so i installed the new driver but the bluetooth still isnt turned on and nothing has changed, any ideas?

[hmvince]

Originally Posted by etaf

that link should work

on first dropdown
Notebook

2nd dropdown
F5

3rd Dropdown
F5GI

thats where I got the manual from and saw the bluetooth driver

i suppose it could be an i I took it as a lowercase l

yes,
i actually have the asus "F5GL" model but i still downloaded the F5GI and that didnt work, the other one that i downloaded like i said, didnt change anything.

[etaf]

so according to the manual the wireless switch switches both blue tooth and wireless on
if this is on then you should see bluetooth in the netwrok adapters under device manager
- if you managed to install the driver without any errors - I would have thought you would have an error message if not device found

if you go
start
all programs
nothing there about bluetooth

playing with my sony vaio bluetooth
if i go to
control panel
bluetooth
open that
nothing is showing - regardlessof if i turn bluetooth on or off via a software switch i have on the sony

if i click on bluetooth settings
with it on - i get a tick in the box - allow bluetooth devices to find this computer
if i turn off
this tick is removed

anything like that on yours